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Delivery-man Robbed At Resort
posted (September 13, 2013)
Ladyville police are investigating an armed robbery which happened yesterday evening at the Black Orchid Resort in Burrell Boom Village. But the robbers weren't after the resort - they were waylaying a delivery-man.

All indications are that the assailants were observing the movement of a San Cas employee who makes rounds at the Resort, and yesterday they struck with precision. Today, the owner of the resort told 7News how the incident unfolded.

Doug Thompson, Owner - Black Orchid Resort
"It was yesterday evening at around 3 o' clock. San Cas who delivers here every week came by to pick up the order fpr next week and he was followed here based on everything that we could determine by two guys on motorcycles."

"They obviously makes the round collecting from different facilities that they service and he came here not to collect but to take orders and two guys on a motorcycle went directly to him and they pulled him out of his vehicle and drag him on the ground and grab the bag of money and jump back on the motorcycle and took off. On their way out they fired shots in the air."

Daniel Ortiz
"You guys suspect that your establishment had nothing to do with it. The primary was an employee of San Cas."

Doug Thompson
"That is correct. They came specifically to take the bag of money from San Cas. They did that, jump back on the cycle and took off. Our facility was not involved at all except that it happened here."

This evening, we contacted Ladyville police who told us that the amount of money that the robbers made off with is still undisclosed, since the San Cas business place still hasn't share with them how much money went missing.

Thompson told us that majority of his employees were in a meeting, and he stressed that the robbers never looked back at his resort after they completed their attack on the San Cas employee.

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